1. Research Tools Brenda Carlson Media Specialist Adams High School

2. Research Ideas 0 http://www.multcolib.org/homework/sochc.html http://www.multcolib.org/homework/sochc.html 0 http://www.nwmissouri.edu/library/courses/english2 /termindex.htm http://www.nwmissouri.edu/library/courses/english2 /termindex.htm 0 http://ozline.com/electraguide/topics.php http://ozline.com/electraguide/topics.php 0 http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/social- justice.htm http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/social- justice.htm 0 https://educationforjustice.org/resource-maps-social- justice-topics -Need membership to get links but helpful site for topic ideas https://educationforjustice.org/resource-maps-social- justice-topics

3. .gov Government agency: www.whitehouse.gov.net –very similar to.com sites, there are no restrictions to register as.net and content is not monitored..com Commercial site.edu Higher education - www.lesley.edu. Other educational sites may appear with different domain names: www.whitehouse.gov/kids.mil Military site- www.navy.mil/ ~ ("tilde") Personal site – blogs, wikis, and personal webpages http://www.members.tripod.com/~DAdams/qkbrdinf.html.org Organization; may be charitable, religious, or a lobbying group - http://www.rhpl.org.

4. Purpose 0 commercial 0 informative 0 educational 0 entertaining 0 persuasive 0 personal 0 institutional 0 a hoax

5. Authority 0 Who is the author? 0 What are his credentials? 0 Does he have sufficient authority to speak on the subject? 0 Is there any way to reach him? 0 Is there an organizational or corporate sponsor? 0 Is this page authentic, or is it a hoax? 0 Is there a reference list?

6. Objectivity 0 Does the content reflect a bias? 0 Is the bias explicit or hidden? 0 Does the identity of the author or sponsor suggest a bias? 0 How does the bias impact the usefulness of the information?

7. Currency 0 Is the information on the page up-to-date? 0 Can you tell when the page was last updated? 0 Are there dead links? 0 Is there a difference between the date the information was created and the date the page was last updated?

8. Clarity 0 Is the information clearly presented? 0 Is the text neat, legible and formatted for easy reading? 0 If there are graphics, do they add to the content or distract? 0 If there are advertisements, do they interfere with your ability to use the page? 0 Are the pages well organized? 0 Are there mistakes in spelling or word usage?

9. Examples 0 http://147.129.226.1/library/research/AIDSFACTS.ht m http://147.129.226.1/library/research/AIDSFACTS.ht m 0 http://home.inreach.com/kumbach/velcro.html http://home.inreach.com/kumbach/velcro.html 0 http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/ http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/ 0 http://www.cnn.com/ http://www.cnn.com/

10. For your projects 0 http://www.biography.com/ http://www.biography.com/ 0 Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/index.htmlhttp://www.loc.gov/index.html 0 PBS - The American Novel http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americannovel/timeline/ http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americannovel/timeline/ 0 Michigan Elibrary www.mel.org do a general database search for author’s namewww.mel.org 0 Adams High School Online book collection 0 PASSWORD: kepdorp http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/lom_1115?db =GVRL

11. Resources http://www.biography.com/ Library of Congress www.loc.govwww.loc.gov http://www.pbs.org/ www.mel.org Elibrary Opposing Viewpoints Medline Plus New York Times Adams High School Online book collection PASSWORD: kepdorp http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/lom_1115?db=G VRL

12. Search Engines- alternatives to Google 0 Searching 0 http://www.google.com/alerts - have google do the work for you http://www.google.com/alerts 0 http://search.carrot2.org/stable/search -offers additional search terms http://search.carrot2.org/stable/search 0 http://www.sweetsearch.com/ - search engine for students, displays full sentences http://www.sweetsearch.com/ 0 http://redz.com/home -displays screen shots of the websites http://redz.com/home

13. Sources for Bibliographic Help 0 http://www.cws.illinois.edu/workshop/writers/citati on/mla/ http://www.cws.illinois.edu/workshop/writers/citati on/mla/ 0 Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format (Purdue University Online Writing Lab): http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ 0 Citation Builder- http://www.easybib.com/http://www.easybib.com/